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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Charles Richter

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Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail. ↗

— Jewel

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Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. ↗

— Tim Roth

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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